Makeup Artist in Notting Hill
Pastel townhouses, communal gardens, and bridal makeup that suits the neighbourhood’s ease.
Notting Hill weddings have a particular mood — relaxed, personal, a bit editorial — and the makeup should match. My W11 mornings tend to happen in tall townhouses with friends drifting between floors, a photographer catching the light on the stairs, and a bride who wants to look polished but never “done”.
The neighbourhood photographs like a film set, from the painted terraces to the communal gardens, so I finish every look for daylight and candid lenses first. It’s also where I teach many of my one-to-one lessons — at your kitchen table, with your own makeup bag, honestly appraised.
Getting ready in Notting Hill
I’m booked for bridal preparations in homes around Westbourne Grove, Elgin Crescent and the Ladbroke estate, boutique-hotel mornings at The Portobello Hotel, and parties that spill into the communal gardens in summer. Short walks to the ceremony are common here — your look is finished, photographed and weatherproofed before you step outside.
Makeup services in Notting Hill
Bridal & Wedding
A trial first, then a calm wedding morning in Notting Hill — makeup that lasts the ceremony, the photographs and the dancing.
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Galas, parties and the evenings that matter — a face that holds its own under chandeliers and flash alike.
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One-to-one at your home — the techniques and colours that genuinely suit you, taught on your own face.
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My wedding is in a Notting Hill garden — will the makeup hold outdoors?
Yes. I build outdoor looks with long-wearing, weather-resistant layers, and finish them for natural light, which is the most honest light there is. A small touch-up kit can be left with you for the evening.
Do you do natural, “barely-there” bridal makeup?
It’s my favourite brief. Skin that still looks like skin takes more technique than a full glam look, not less — and it’s very much the Notting Hill register.
More questions answered on the FAQ page.
I’m also frequently booked in Hampstead, St John's Wood, Belgravia — and anywhere else in London, just ask.
Tell me about your day in Notting Hill
Send me the date, the address, and a sense of what you’re picturing. I read every enquiry myself, and the reply you get will be mine.